Test PB Collection: FTE

As weather cools, you may notice ants coming indoors.

December 7, 10 am to noon Colusa County Fairgrounds, Community Building We will provide all materials but if you need to bring gloves, pruning shears, needle nose pliers and wire cutters. $25 per person Sign up online or in our office at 100 Sunrise Blvd., Ste.

Hedgerows bordering farmland plantings with native trees, shrubs, bunch grasses and wildflowers support bug-eating birds, which helps with on-farm pest control, according to research by recent UC Davis graduate Sacha Heath and UC Cooperative Extension advisor Rachael Long.

Michael Jordan and Tom Eisner shared at least one thing in common: a rejection that hurt deeply and a recovery that ended amazingly. Jordan, the second-highest-scoring NBA player scorer (5,987 points), "wasn't good enough" to make his high school varsity basketball team (at first).

Advice for the Home Gardener from the MGCC's Help Desk Gardener's Request: Hi Master Gardeners!: I'm into my third year with my artichoke crowns, and generally they seem to be doing well - I get a crop in the spring, then they die back, then new rosettes come out in about September and grow over the...

Remember to sign up for the Marketing workshop! Local speakers will include Julie Morris from Morris Grassfed, Mark Farr from Corral De Tierra Cattle Company, Jim Warren from 101 Livestock, and Dina Izzo from BlueBog Consulting.

A Gulf Fritillary butterfly, Agraulis vanillae, sips nectar from the lavender blossom of a passionflower vine, its host plant. Another Gulf Frit flutters in to investigate. A female and male Gulf Frit find one another. Near them, Gulf Frit caterpillars hungrily munch the leaves.

By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County When I first moved to Napa 14 years ago, autumn rains arrived fairly reliably around the middle of October. As we are all painfully aware now, autumn rains have been starting later and laterand sometimes not at all.

Marijohn Bledsoe, a UCCE community education specialist 2 for the UC Master Food Preserver Program, passed away in Modesto on Oct. 31, 2019. She was 46. Bledsoe joined UCCE in the Capital Corridor in 2016.

California's drought and bark-beetle infestation killed more than 129 million trees between 2012 and 2016 in the Sierra Nevada. But amid the devastation stood some survivors.